Hatfield, who was travelling with husband Ian and their 13-year-old daughter Emily, said: “Someone spotted the French jet and told the cabin crew, who I presume told the Jet2 pilots.

“The air stewardess then announced there was nothing to worry about.

“Ian was terrified and it didn’t help that loads of other passengers came by us to look out at it.”

The family photographed the aircraft seemingly tracking Flight LS1204 and said the feeling on board was “a mixture of excitement at seeing the fighter so close up and terror as to if we were about to get shot down”.

A Jet2 spokesman told the Birmingham Mail: “We are awaiting clarification from the French air traffic authorities, as to why a military aircraft was apparently tracking our aircraft.”

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